Advisory Board

Greig de Peuter

Member

Greig de Peuter is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. He has published widely on working conditions and labour politics in the arts, media, and cultural industries. Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, he collaborates on the research project Cultural Workers Organize, which explores collective responses and sustainable alternatives to precarious work in the creative economy. With Nicole Cohen and Enda Brophy, he is the co-editor of “Interrogating Internships: Unpaid Work, Creative Industries, and Higher Education,” a special issue of the journal tripleC (2015). Greig, Nicole, and Enda received the Award for Labour Reporting (2013) from the Canadian Association of Journalists for their Briarpatch article, “Interns, Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose (Literally).” In 2016 Greig helped to introduce an accredited co-operative education option to Laurier’s MA program in Communication Studies.

Ross Perlin

Member

Ross is the author of Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy. He has spoken on internships, youth economics, precarious labor, and related topics at the Googleplex, the British Parliament, the Economic Policy Institute, many college campuses, and on radio and television programs around the world. Ross’ work has appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian (UK), and The Washington Post, among other places. He has addressed audiences of students, employers, career counselors, scholars, union members, Occupy Wall Street activists, journalists, and politicians. He has spoken at venues such as the Googleplex, the British Parliament, the Economic Policy Institute, and universities including Cornell, Temple, Rutgers, and CUNY. He has been a television and radio guest on networks across the world, including MSNBC, CBS, Fox, the BBC, NPR, and many others. Ross is a graduate of Andover and Stanford. He earned graduate degrees from Cambridge and the University of London (SOAS) on a Marshall Scholarship.